Typhlops yonenagae Rodrigues, 1991 “Cobra-cega”

(Figs. 9.1 and 21.3)

Caatinga endemic, range restricted species. Recorded only in the type-locality, Santo Inácio village, municipality of Gentio do Ouro, Bahia State, on the right bank of São Francisco River (Rodrigues & Juncá 2002), 475 m elevation. The vegetation is xerophytic with bushy caatinga growing over rocky outcrops, inselbergs, red latosols or stony and sandy soils (Rodrigues 1991a; Rodrigues & Juncá 2002). It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on arthropods (Rodrigues & Juncá 2002).